Go see live music downtown. AI is only a threat to corporate art (which never was art, ha ha).
I’ve not been buying the fear-mongering. Maybe someone can convince me I’m mistaken, but this piece did not.
Something like that is already happening with video games and game engines. When you talk with other game developers about making a game "from scratch" the first question they ask is "why?". Why bother making your own engine if there's already Unity/Unreal/Godot?
That's just a little example of how as something gets more and more accessible people forgets and disregard making it more manually. The same can absolutely happen with art in general, which is sad.
The only way I can think this won't happen is that we end up in a future with enough free time to invest in our hobbies and that more people than I expect will enjoy making things by themselves or maybe using AI for new ways to express themselves, which is the "good" future many AI enthusiasts mention and what I honestly would prefer too, but I don't have much hope.
This is why culture is important. Technology cannot in seconds generate a song you teach your child to play or sing with you in the tradition of your people.
We should get back to song readers and sing a longs and unearth the old songs of our histories and celebrate them together with our children.
There will still be people, that will do things "just because". Why write a new kernel, when Unix already exists? People will be creative and social value of doing something new (with or without use of AI) will be high. Performing will be valued a little more than now. I'm pretty sure there will be counter-culture of people appreciating visual and music art that is not touched by AI, because there are always some counter-cultures. People like doing art just for the sake of doing it, not only for recognition. There will be wealthy people willing to buy such "unique" pieces.
Disclosure: Live musician.
(And by live music, you should be able to accidentally spill your beer on the stage. I don’t mean arena music.)